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JC Penney, Dixie Square Mall | 2009

I returned with a friend to the mall in 2009, shooting the interior in the dawn light of Easter morning. The escalator above, in the former JCPenney, had been ravaged by the elements and vandals. Roof leaks had caused half of the second-story floor to cave in behind it.